ACTRESS According to her relatives, Stella Stevens passed away at age 84 following a fight with Alzheimer’s.
The star of The Poseidon Adventure was a 1960s movie siren who collaborated with performers like Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis.
Elvis and her collaborated on the film Girls, Girls, Girls! in The Nutty Professor, and next to Lewis.
Her friend John O’Brien and son Andrew Stevens, an actor and producer, both confirmed that she passed away in Los Angeles on Friday.
Stevens, a Mississippi native, was found in Memphis, Tennessee, by 20th Century Fox when they saw her in a theatre show at her college.
After that, Paramount and Columbia hired her, making her a star in some of the most well-liked movies of the 1960s.
The 1960s superstar later went on to direct, write, and produce movies in addition to being renowned the centrefold for Playboy.
She directed the 1989 movie The Ranch, which starred her son Andrew. In 1979, she also served as the director of the documentary The American Heroine.
Throughout the 1970s, Stevens also appeared in a number of TV episodes, such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Flamingo Road in 1980.
Her son executive produced the 2005 film Popstar, which featured one of her most recent roles.
The actress “had been in hospice for quite some time with Stage 7 Alzheimer’s,” according to Andrew, who spoke to The Hollywood Reporter.
Her grandkids Amelia, Aubrey, and Samuel as well as Andrew survive her.
Bob Kulick, a well-known rock guitarist who had been her boyfriend for for 40 years, passed away in 2020.
